Deeptech and Innovation minor

Location: Université PSL I Teacher: Karla Balaa I Date: November/March I Duration: 40h

During this course, students will be grouped into multidisciplinary teams with the aim of developing a strategy for promoting their project ideas. They will be supported by professionals from the world of business and technology transfer, as well as workshops and training modules. The programme lasts 6 months, from November to March. The workshops take place every Tuesday evening from 6pm to 8pm (excluding school holidays).

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Location: Mines Paris - PSL I Teacher: Pascal Le Masson I Date: November I Duration: 35h

This course provides an introduction to the management of uncertainty through design theory. The current challenges linked to transitions (climate, energy, mobility, digital) and crises (pandemics, inflation, war) require the ability to organise collective action in the face of the unknown. This skill is expected of all managers, especially scientists, engineers and designers. Thanks to the C-K theory, which combines creativity and knowledge, it is now easier to develop appropriate methods for exploring the unknown in a collective and constructive way.

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Location: Mines Paris - PSL I Date: Oct-Dec I Duration: 18h

The aim of this training module is to introduce all students to the various aspects of corporate financial management, from managing financial balances to analyzing financing and investment operations, as well as to ways of measuring performance. The course will cover the main elements of corporate taxation and financial statements (accounting processes and standards, balance sheet, income statement, cost measurement, profitability analysis, etc.). It will seek to determine how to measure a company's economic performance and value creation.

Location: Mines Paris - PSL I Date: Oct-Dec I Duration: 10h

In today's innovation-intensive economy, intellectual property and the valorization of inventions are strategic issues for companies. The aim of this training module is to provide an overview of the different mechanisms for protecting and valorizing the products of intellectual activity: copyright, patents, trademarks, designs and models. The course will also look at the issues involved in commercializing public research: licensing, partnership research, etc.

Location: Bibliothèque de l'incubateur Agoranov (96BIS Boulevard Raspail 76006 PARIS)I Teacher: Jean-Michel Dalle I Date: February/April I Length: 16 hours

How do you go from publication in Nature to listing on Nasdaq? Is there really a straight line from one to the other? And, if there is no straight line, what are the possible paths? How do we go about it?

Through real-life technology transfer case studies, the course will enable students to understand and differentiate the interlocutors, set-ups and key players in technology transfer processes, including from the point of view of identifying potential markets and building a value proposition.

Location: Mines Paris - PSL I Date: March I Duration: 35h

Contemporary socio-economic issues (climate change, rising inequality, new forms of mobility, etc.) require managers, engineers, and scientists to master not only reasoning based on inference, deduction, optimization, and decision-making, but also reasoning based on generativity, i.e., the ability to rigorously generate better alternatives. This generative logic, which is essential for contemporary collective decision-making, can be found in creativity as well as in certain mathematical reasoning (extension of bodies), in the inventions of engineers and the discoveries of scientists, in the works of designers and artists, and in certain data science tools (generative modeling, generative AI). In all these situations, the aim is to design, with varying degrees of systematicity and rigor, new, previously unknown entities, while taking into account accumulated knowledge.

Advances in design theory now make it possible to systematically study, using a single unifying language, generative processes that might have seemed (wrongly) very distant from one another. Based on these results, the course has three objectives:

- To assimilate the theoretical foundations of generative reasoning;

- To master several associated design methods and know how to apply them to innovation themes and major contemporary challenges (creation of C-K reference frameworks);

- Enable understanding, evaluation, and even improvement of generative process management in various fields, from generative algorithms in data science to generative methods used by Bauhaus designers.

Location: Mines Paris - PSL I Date: March I Duration: 18h

Drawing up a business plan is an essential step in giving direction to a company's project. The aim of this training module is to provide an effective methodology for drawing up a business plan and the various summary documents it includes. The course will present the objectives, mechanisms and tools required to draw up a business plan and put together the financial package for a project. It will define the basic concepts of financial statements (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, etc.) and present the various levers of action and sources of financing that can be mobilized for a project.

Location: Réseau C.U.R.I.E. - PSL I Date: N/AI Duration: 10h

In 5 sequences, this training course will enable you to become more involved in collaborative projects and the creation of innovative activities resulting from public research. You will be introduced to the key concepts and tools for the socio-economic valorization of research results. Testimonials and real-life case studies will be used to put the concepts covered into context.

Location: Mines Paris - PSL I Teacher: Benjamin Cabanes I Date: S1/S2I 10 conferences

Using a variety of teaching methods (lectures, tutorials, case studies, masterclasses, etc.), this training module will address the main issues involved in deeptech entrepreneurship and innovation management: drawing up a product development strategy, strategic steering of R&D, estimating financing requirements and assessing a project's profitability, identifying the company's growth levers, business model, designing a development and financing strategy, etc.

Lieu : ENS - PSL I Date : S1/S2 I Durée : 10 conférences

Location: Dauphine - PSL I 10 conferences

The House of Entrepreneurship at Université Paris Dauphine-PSL offers a series of conferences and events, in collaboration with the incubator and its many partners, to raise awareness of entrepreneurship.

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Minimum 2-month internship

Personal deeptech project, research project, internship, etc.)

Depending on the student and his or her background, the professional experience may take the form of an internship with a deeptech startup or a player in the ecosystem (incubators, investment funds, open innovation structures, etc.), or an individual project.

This internship or project can be carried out as part of a PSL course (Masters internship, for example).

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